As Amended
SEC. 5-1-15. Election of officers of the senate.
The senate shall proceed, by viva voce vote of a majority of the senators present, to elect a secretary, a sergeant-at-arms and a doorkeeper. The votes shall be entered on the journal. In like manner the senate shall proceed to choose a president of the senate pro tempore, who shall preside in the absence of the lieutenant governor.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 5, art. 3; 1871, Sec. 329; 1880, Sec. 175; 1892, Sec. 2652; 1906, Sec. 3012; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 5400; 1930, Sec. 5335; 1942, Sec. 3332. 1983, ch. 328, Sec. 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 9, 1983).